Wagged vs Null - What's the difference?
wagged | null |
(wag)
To swing from side to side, especially of an animal's tail
* Shakespeare
* Bible, Jer. xviii. 16
(UK, Australia, slang) To play truant from school.
* 1848 , Charles Dickens, Dombey and Son, xxii
* 1901 , William Sylvester Walker, In the Blood, i. 13
(obsolete) To be in action or motion; to move; to get along; to progress; to stir.
* Shakespeare
(obsolete) To go; to depart.
* Shakespeare
An oscillating movement.
A witty person.
Accessed 23 Feb. 2006.
* Jonathon Green, "wag," The Cassell Dictionary of Slang, (1998) p. 1257.
A non-existent or empty value or set of values.
Zero]] quantity of [[expression, expressions; nothing.
Something that has no force or meaning.
(computing) the ASCII or Unicode character (), represented by a zero value, that indicates no character and is sometimes used as a string terminator.
(computing) the attribute of an entity that has no valid value.
One of the beads in nulled work.
(statistics) null hypothesis
Having no validity, "null and void"
insignificant
* 1924 , Marcel Proust, Within a Budding Grove :
absent or non-existent
(mathematics) of the null set
(mathematics) of or comprising a value of precisely zero
(genetics, of a mutation) causing a complete loss of gene function, amorphic.
As a verb wagged
is (wag).As a noun null is
zero, nil; the cardinal number before einn.wagged
English
Verb
(head)wag
English
Verb
- No discerner durst wag his tongue in censure.
- Every one that passeth thereby shall be astonished, and wag his head.
- "My misfortunes all began in wagging,'' Sir; but what could I do, exceptin' ''wag''?" "Excepting what?" said Mr. Carker. "''Wag,'' Sir. ''Wagging'' from school." "Do you mean pretending to go there, and not going?" said Mr. Carker. "Yes, Sir, that's ''wagging, Sir."
- They had "wagged it" from school, as they termed it, which..meant truancy in all its forms.
- "Thus we may see," quoth he, "how the world wags ."
- I will provoke him to 't, or let him wag .
Derived terms
* (to not go to school) play the wag; hop the wag; wag it * to finger-wagSee also
* waggle (frequentative) * wiggleNoun
(en noun)- The wag of my dog's tail expresses happiness.
See also
* skivitisReferences
* The Oxford English Dictionary, (1989)Anagrams
* ----null
English
Noun
(en noun)- (Francis Bacon)
- Since no date of birth was entered for the patient, his age is null .
Adjective
(en adjective)- In proportion as we descend the social scale our snobbishness fastens on to mere nothings which are perhaps no more null than the distinctions observed by the aristocracy, but, being more obscure, more peculiar to the individual, take us more by surprise.